Top 1200 Materialistic Person Quotes & Sayings

The atheist worldview of life is a materialistic culture that frees humanity from superstition.

I don't believe in materialistic gifts and grand gestures.

I draw from my family and my friends and I feel like that small-town person. The achievements, the materialistic possessions have really become to mean less. They mean nothing.

The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.

That materialistic life, that's not my god.

I'm not a materialistic person.

Posterity will one day laugh at the foolishness of modern materialistic philosophers.

I'm not a materialistic person, to be honest. I'm all about the energy, man. I never had anything growing up, so I don't know what it means to lose anything.

Popular culture is morally bankrupt, flagrantly licentious and utterly materialistic-and Madonna is the worst of all.

A merely symbolic religion does not threaten the ruling regime of materialistic science.

Fashion isn't me, even though I work in it. It's just materialistic stuff.

We have a largely materialistic lifestyle characterized by a materialistic culture. However, this only provides us with temporary, sensory satisfaction, whereas long-term satisfaction is based not on the senses but on the mind. That’s where real tranquility is to be found. And peace of mind turns out to be a significant factor in our physical health too.

That is the job of the Catholic Church, to be a balance to the materialistic drives of our culture and of economy.

We Americans commercialize everything. Look at what we did to Christmas. Christmas is Jesus' birthday. Now, I don't know Jesus, but from what I read he was the least materialistic person who ever walked the earth. No bling on Jesus. He kept a low profile and we turned his birthday into the most commercial day of the year. In fact we have a whole Jesus birthday season. And then at the end of it, we have the nerve to have an economist come on TV and say what a horrible Jesus birthday season we had.

I ask you to write this deeply into your souls . . . the materialistic culture . . . is now on the way to its close.

To this day, I am the least materialistic person I know, because my father didn't raise me to just go out and buy this or that car. The only reason I wanted to make money as an actor was because I'm passionate about food!

As human beings, we're very materialistic and have all this stuff - furs and cars and diamonds and money.

The time has come to realize that supersensible knowledge has now to arise from the materialistic grave.

In our present age, while materialistic pursuits are important, the gentler aspects of life are being overlooked.

I have yet to meet a single person from our culture, no matter what his or her educational background, IQ, and specific training, who had powerful transpersonal experiences and continues to subscribe to the materialistic monism of Western science.

I am simple and an open book. I don't like ambitious and materialistic people.

To achieve any change in the minds of the youth, there must be reorientation in terms of materialistic tendencies, corruption and crime generally.

I'm not a materialistic person at all, but I always want the next thing; I've got a nice toolbox, but I still want another set of spanners.

In a world where we are so pragmatic and materialistic, fear is the only emotion that allows even a sophisticated person to believe in something beyond.

A materialistic person is ruthless with other people but kind to himself. A spiritual person is ruthless with himself but kind to everybody else.

A materialistic world will not be won to Christ by a materialistic church.

Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.

The strongest argument for the un-materialistic character of American life is the fact that we tolerate conditions that are, from a materialistic point of view, intolerable. ... No nation with any sense of material well-being would endure the food we eat, the cramped apartments we live in, the noise, the traffic, the crowded subways and buses. American life, in large cities, at any rate, is a perpetual assault on the senses and the nerves.

I think I'm actually quite a materialistic person, I value what it takes to make a car or build a nice house. Money does change things, but how it changes people depends on how they react to it.

What's really baffling to me is the way that the technology has risen up to help us become more materialistic.

I had a fairly enlightened dad, though if you looked at his resume, it might not seem that way. He was a chartered accountant for Price Waterhouse. He was strict, and we had a very ordered life. To this day, I am the least materialistic person I know, because my father didn't raise me to just go out and buy this or that car.

I'm not materialistic. I love clothes and all that stuff, but I don't need it to live.

It is our homes and families that need reforming in this increasingly materialistic and secular world.

Materialistic I'm narcissistic My shoe game is mean It's so sadistic

... the great artists ... do not want security, egoistic or materialistic.

There's good stuff going on in modern pop music, but a lot of it is really materialistic and only about money.

Tahiti is now completely occupied by materialistic ideas and I think it is wrong.

We owe Christ to the world--to the least person and to the greatest person, to the richest person and to the poorest person, to the best person and to the worst person. We are in debt to the nations.

The great question of our time is, 'Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?'

In an overly materialistic world, prosperity is unfortunately and invariably associated with hoards of money and countless possessions. Yet to the truly prosperous people of this world, prosperity is prosperity in its purest and original sense. Prosperity comes from the Latin word "spes", which means "hope and vigor." To the truly prosperous person, being prosperous means being positive and happy in the moment.

I know I've been lucky, but I'm not very materialistic - I don't believe in collecting many unnecessary things and I'm not into girlie shopping.

When we analyze this war in a materialistic way and ask when is it going to end and who will be the winner and the loser, it means that we do not see the endgame.

Materialistic progress alone does not guarantee national security. What is essential is the character and integrity of the country's citizens.

I'm not a very materialistic person.

I'm really not a materialistic person.

We are often told we are materialistic. It seems to me, we are not materialistic enough. We have a disrespect for materials. We use it quickly and carelessly. If were genuinely materialistic people, we would understand where materials come from and where they go to. But, at the moment, the entire global economy seems to be built on the model of digging things up from one hole in the ground on one side of the earth, transporting them around the world, using them for a few days, and sticking them in a hole in the ground on the other side of the world.

If you are really a product of a materialistic universe, how is it that you don't feel at home there?

Man is the result of a purposeless and materialistic process that did not have him in mind. He was not planned.

Being someone who is of our sensual reality, Stephen Strange has a lifestyle, he has a sexuality, he's materialistic.

The materialistic pattern of life is that where money predominates over everything. The non-materialistic life is that where money is just a means - happiness predominates, joy predominates; your own individuality predominates. You know who you are and where you are going, and you are not distracted. Then suddenly you will see your life has a meditative quality to it.

The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication.

Today, society is sacrificing love, values and dharma in its pursuit of materialistic gains.

I'm not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does.

If materialistic knowledge is power, it is not wisdom. It is but a blind force.

The world is facing a historic turning point because the system of materialistic liberalism has come to a deadlock.

The strongest argument for the un-materialistic character of American life is that we tolerate conditions that are, from a materialistic point of view, intolerable.

Of course, a culture as manically and massively materialistic as ours creates materialistic behavior in its people, especially in those people who've been subjected to nothing but the destruction of imagination that this culture calls education, the destruction of autonomy it calls work, and the destruction of activity it calls entertainment.

I'm not very materialistic - I don't have a whole lot of stuff. But I do always like a pair of really weird socks.

I don't think materialistic things are my priority.

The materialistic point of view in psychology can claim, at best, only the value of an heuristic hypothesis.